Members of Congress, advocacy groups and a former administration official say Operation Warp Speed should release its vaccine contracts with pharmaceutical companies, following an NPR report that the Trump administration awarded billions of dollars through a third party, bypassing the usual contracting process.
“The administration really just seems to be playing a game of hide and seek,” Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Texas, told NPR.
When Doggett and his colleagues were working on a bipartisan bill this spring to create a central database to track COVID-19 spending, they didn’t know some of Operation Warp Speed’s biggest contracts were going through a third party.
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